↑ reinforcing ↓ reducing ⊥ even method.
Clinical manifestations: Throbbing or distending vertex pain worse with stress/anger, dizziness or vertigo, irritability and short temper, flushed face and red eyes, insomnia with vivid dreams, dry mouth and throat.
Tongue: Red body with red sides, thin dry yellow or scanty coat. Pulse: Wiry, possibly fine and rapid.
Treatment principle: Calm the Liver and anchor Yang, clear Heat, expel interior Wind.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Liver-Yang-rising slide.
Clinical manifestations: Cold, aching vertex pain improved by warmth, vomiting of clear watery fluids, cold hands and feet, pale chilly appearance, pain worsens with cold exposure.
Tongue: Pale body with white, slippery coating. Pulse: Deep, wiry, slow or tight.
Treatment principle: Warm the Liver channel, dispel Cold, direct rebellious Qi downward.
Note: moxa applicable despite the reducing method (Cold calls for warming even while the channel obstruction is cleared). Direct match with this site's own Stagnation-of-Cold-in-the-Liver-channel slide — its own clinical text explicitly names "vertical headache" and "vomiting of clear watery fluid" among its symptoms, a genuine word-for-word overlap with this pattern rather than the genital-only presentation that slide is more often associated with.
Clinical manifestations: Dull, lingering vertex pain worsened by fatigue/overwork, dizziness and blurred vision, pale appearance, easily fatigued, dry eyes, pain improves with rest/sleep.
Tongue: Pale body (especially sides), thin slightly dry with thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and choppy, possibly wiry at the left Guan position.
Treatment principle: Nourish Liver Blood, tonify, alleviate pain through nourishment.
Note: moxa applicable on SP-6/BL-18. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Liver-Blood-deficiency slide.
4. Damp-Phlegm
Clinical manifestations: Heavy, wrapped sensation at the vertex, dizziness and brain fog, nausea or vomiting, thick white greasy tongue coating, chest stuffiness and poor appetite, worsens with damp/humid weather.
Tongue: Pale, swollen body with scalloped edges, thick white greasy wet coating. Pulse: Slippery.
Treatment principle: Transform Wind-Phlegm, strengthen the Spleen, resolve Dampness, lift clear Yang.
Note: no moxa. This site has no plain excess Damp-Phlegm/middle-burner-obstruction slide distinct from the Liver-Qi-stagnation-combined version, a gap also confirmed on the SIBO and BPPV pages this session — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
Clinical manifestations: Fixed, stabbing pain at the vertex, worse at night, dark purple tongue with stasis spots, history of head trauma, worsens with cold exposure, improves with warmth/gentle movement.
Tongue: Dark purple body with stasis spots, distended dark sublingual veins. Pulse: Choppy.
Treatment principle: Invigorate Blood, dispel stasis, open orifices, unblock channels.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Liver-Blood-stasis slide.